January 2010
Intermediate to advanced
176 pages
7h 54m
English

Photography by Benjamin Cowden
Nothing says “machine” quite like a bunch of gears turning in time with each other. It’s an iconic image. Unfortunately, gears are expensive and hard to find pre-made. You can scavenge them from discarded machines, but the selection is limited, and it’s possible to amass a whole drawer of gears without having any two that actually fit together.
When I began making kinetic sculpture, this was one of my major dilemmas. So I developed an easy and relatively fast technique for making my own gears out of metal plate that also has the advantage of giving them ...
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